Garment hanger guard



. Dec. l, 1936.

GARMENT HANGER GUARD Filed June 25, 1935 nnentors L'.D.Fletc er J.C.Krejci lv L. D. FLETCHER ET Al. 2,062,566

Patented Dec. 1, 1936 UNITED STATES GARMENT HANGER GUARD Leonard D. Fletcher and John C. Krejci, Omaha, Nebr.

Application June 25,

4 Claims.

The present invention relates to garment hangers, and has for an object to provide a construction of hanger with a guard adapted to not only protect coats and other garments from direct contact with the wire hanger but to also provide a guard which has substantial thickness and form to maintain pressed garments in shape and from sagging or pulling along sharp lines or from points at the ends of the hanger.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a guard which may be made from paper of suitable thickness and which is so shaped and cut as to lit over the upper portion of the hanger and be yieldably mounted thereon and to receive the garments directly thereagainst, the guard being constructed to substantially conform tothe shape of the hanger and to cover the opposite ends thereof.

A further object of the invention is to provide a yieldable guard for attachment to garment hangers and which is provided with an improved and simplified fastening means for holding the guard in place on the hanger, the fastening means being readily released so that the guard may be interchanged with hangers and may be purchased separately from the hangers and applied thereto.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the drawing, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughoutthe several views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a garment hanger constructed according to the present invention, the dotted lines showing a coat or the like suspended on the hanger.

Figure 2 is a detail longitudinal section taken o through the guard of the hanger.

Figure 3 is a top edge view thereof, and

Figure 4 is an enlarged transverse section taken through the outer end portion of the hanger with the guard thereon on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Referring now to the drawing, the invention is shown as applied to and as a part of a conventional type of wire coat hanger I0 which has upwardly converging arms terminating in a hook I I and provided with the lower horizontal bar I2.

The guard is preferably made of paper and is cut and molded to shape and possesses sufficient inherent resiliency to retain the guard on the hanger and to support garments in substantially their lled out and rounded shape. The guard comprises a middle section I3 provided centrally 1935, Serial No. 28,311

with an aperture I4 through which the hook Il projects and the section I3 is adapted to seat about the middle portion of the hanger at the base of the hook I I. The central section I3 of the guard is provided at opposite ends with a plu- 5"- rality of consecutively disposed sections I5 which are continuous with the middle section I3 and are defined by notches I 6 or the like admitting of the bending of the body of the guard into proper shape. It will be noted that the sections I5 adjacent the middle section I3 are bent downwardly therefrom at a suitable inclination while the lower sections I5 are curved or bent outwardly at a slight angle so as to substantially conform to the shoulder portions of the garment I'I, shown in dotted lines in Figure 1.

The sections I5 are thus adapted to lie upon and substantially conform to the upwardly converging arms of the hanger I0 with the exception that the upper ends of the upper sections I5 are held or inclined upwardly at a slight angle away from the top portion of the hanger IU, as clearly shown by dotted lines in Figure 1.

Thus the guard rounds out and imparts the proper shape to the hanger IIJ, and the guard is given a rounded cross-sectional configuration, as shown in Figure 4, so that the garment is supported upon a relatively broad rounded guard instead of on a relatively thin straight wire as is the case where the hanger I0 is used without the guard.

The guard is provided at each end with a lower corner section I8. The corner section I8 is also vrounded in cross sectional configuration and is rolled or curved downwardly to conform to the bent ends of the wire hanger and to cover said ends and provide relatively wideand rounded engaging portions for direct contact with the shoulders and sleeves of the garment. Each section I8 is joined to the adjacent side section I5 of the guard by an inwardly crimped portion I9.

The crimped portion I9 is constructed by providing a longitudinal slot 2U in the upper edge of. the guard between the sections I5 and I8 so as to remove the material at the crimped portion I9, and the side walls of the crimped portion are bent inwardly toward each other as shown in Figure 4 to provide a pair of substantially abutting shoulders 2| for engagement beneath the adjacent side arm of the hanger II) to hold the side arm upwardly against the bottom of the guard. As the guard is constructed of paper or other suitable yieldable material, the crimped portions may be sprung outwardly from each other to open or space apart the shoulders 2| so that the guard may be lifted from the hanger.

It is also evident that as the crimped portions 20 are bent inwardly toward each other they converge upwardly so that the inner faces of the crimped portions 20 provide cam` edges adapted to receive therebetween the wire hanger I0 for separating the shoulders 2|. The inherent resiliency of the crimped portions 20 snap the shoulders 2l together beneath the wire hanger Ill, as

shown in Figure 4.

The guard is thus detachably mounted upon the hanger I0 as the hook Il may be readily inserted through the aperture I4 in the top of the guard.

It is also apparent that should the guard become damaged it may be easily removedv and Aa new guard applied to the hanger. The guard may be manufactured and sold separately from the hangers I0 and be subsequently applied thereto as desired.

In the manufacture of the guards, cardboard blanks arelaid out flat in dry condition and subjected to die cutting to impart to the blanks the necessary friction and to provide the central opening I4 and the slots 2D together with the slits I 6 in the edges of the blank. The cardboard blank is now dampened and placed in the mold and pressed to shape. When dry the guard offers the necessary resistance to deformation in use and is supported for the most part along the upper edges of the wire hanger I0. It will also be noted that the guard possesses the necessary resiliency to prevent damage to garments which are suspended on the hanger and that the garm-ents will not only be held to proper shape and in pressed condition but will also be held out of. contact with. the metal, enamel or paint of the hanger and will thus be protected from rust and the like.

We do not'wish to be restricted to the size, form, andv proportions of the various parts, and obviously changes could be made in the construction herein described without departing from the spirit of the invention, it being only necessary that such changes fall Within the scope of the appended claims. v

What is claimed is:-

l. A garment support comprising a wire hanger having a hook and opposite side arms, and a cardboard guard fitting over the hanger with a central hole for the reception of the hook and having rounded cross-sectional configuration to seat upon and extend beyond the arms of the hanger, said guard having inwardly crimped shoulders near opposite ends for detachable engagement beneath the arms of the hanger to hold th-e guard thereto.

2. In a garment support, a wire hanger having a hook at its upper portion and downwardly diverging arms, a paper guard having a central apertured portion for engagement over the hook and provided with successive bendable sections diverging downwardly from the central portion and resting on said arms of the hanger, said guard having near its lower end longitudinal slots in its outer portion and having the side portions crimped inwardly to provide shoulders below said slots, said shoulders adapted to engage beneath the arms of the hanger for holding the guard thereto.

3. A guard for attachment to a garment hanger and having a hook and do-wnwardly diverging arms, comprising a cardboard body cut and stamped to provide a straight intermediate portion with an opening therein to receive the hook and engage said arms at the base of the hook and to provide downwardly diverging end portions for the guard adapted to seat upon and cover said arms of a garment hanger, the opposite lower ends of said guard having downwardly curved corner portions to cover the ends of the hanger arms and provided with slots at the outer portion of the guard above said corner portions, the sides of the guard .opposite said slots being crimped inwardly toward each other to provide interlocking shoulders for engagement beneath the arms of the hanger to hold the guard thereto.

4. A guard for wire garment hangers having a hook and downwardly diverging arms, comprising a paper body portion cut and molded to shape to provide an .intermediate apertured section for receiving the hanger hook thereover and adapted to seat on the hanger about the base of the hook, said guard having successive side sections extending from the middle section and adapted to be bent relative thereto and to each other to substantially rest upon and enclose the downwardly diverging arms of the hanger, said guard having opposite end corner sections rolled downwardly adapted to cover the ends of said hanger arms,

said end sections being connected to the lowermost side sections of the guard by inwardly crimped side portions, said side portions providing interlocking shoulders adapted to engage beneath the downwardly diverging arms of, the

hanger to detachably hold the guard thereto.

LEONARD D. FLETCHER. JOHN C. KREJCI. 

